The Wallace Foundation
Jessica Furer is an experienced education professional with over two decades of expertise in program management and strategic partnerships. Currently serving as a Program Officer at The Wallace Foundation since March 2022, Jessica has previously held various leadership roles at Eskolta School Research and Design, including Strategic Partnerships Consultant, Chief of Staff, and Associate Director from July 2010 to February 2022. Prior experience includes Senior Program Officer at New Visions for Public Schools, Project Manager at the NYC Department of Education, and Program Coordinator for Education, Arts and the Humanities at The New York Community Trust. Early career experiences include teaching history at Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Friends' Central School from August 1999 to June 2004.
The Wallace Foundation
The Wallace Foundation is an independent national philanthropy dedicated to fostering equity and improvements in learning and enrichment for young people, and in the arts for everyone. We seek to create both direct benefits for our grantee partners in the form of improved capacity and services, along with indirect benefits for the fields we work in by developing and sharing credible, useful knowledge. Our current main areas of focus include: education leadership, building arts audiences, summer learning, social and emotional learning, arts learning and after-school system-building. The foundation maintains an online library of lessons at wallacefoundation.org.